“Great weirding” is my only from-the-future meme because it’s gained some currency even though I’ve never actually explained it. I went public with it in passing in 2016 in my Atlantic Harambe essay and have been using it without defining it ever since. theatlantic.com/technology/arc
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I do have a fairly extensive account of what I mean by it. It’s the title of my endlessly redrafted unpublished opening essay for breaking smart S2. It’s not unpublished because I’m blocked because the referent of the idea moves faster than I can think about it. Very appropriate.
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I think of the meme as a tachyon meme. Moves faster than the speed of thought and travels backwards in time from future discourses to shape current ones.
We’re going to see more tachyonic memetics in the future...err in the future-present from the future-future.
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When I first used the phrase, btw usage of “weird” was on the rise. For eg to talk about weird mysterious planet crashes. Also for a decade “global weirding” has been an alt for climate change that never quite caught on (coined by Hunter L0vins, popularized by Tom Friedman)
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Wait, did I have dreams where I read posts explaining the great weirding? I swear there were graphs and everything.
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